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Polarization state of electromagnetic wave has important applications in satellite communication, radar detection, and stereoscopic display imaging. Therefore, the control of polarization state of electromagnetic wave is an important direction in scientific research. The traditional method of manipulating the polarization state is mainly realized based on Faraday effect and birefringent crystal, which has a certain requirement for the material thickness (leading to large volume), and does not have broadband characteristics (leading to narrow band). Recently, metamaterial with subwavelength meta-atoms, has achieved many exotic phenomena and functionalities that cannot be found in nature. As an important branch of metamaterial-based devices, polarization converter has attracted great attention and achieved significant progress. However, most of them cannot realize ultra-broadband, high-efficiency, wide-angle, and simple geometry simultaneously. In this paper, a linear polarization converter based on a square split ring metasurface is proposed. Due to the anisotropic structure, the amplitudes of the reflected electric field along the two diagonal lines are equal, and their phase difference is 180°. As a result, the polarization direction of the incident wave can be rotated 90°. The simulation results show that the polarization conversion ratio (PCR) is higher than 90% in a frequency range from 7.12 to 18.82 GHz, which means that the relative bandwidth reaches 90%. The significant bandwidth expansion is attributed to the four electromagnetic resonances generated in a square-split-ring unit. We investigate the influence of geometric parameters on PCR in detail. We also examine the performance of the proposed structure under oblique incidence. It has little effect on the co-polarization and cross-polarization reflection coefficients when the incident angle is changed from 0° to 45°. Even if the incident angle reaches 45°, the mean PCR remains above 80%. The PCRs of the four electromagnetic resonant points are all close to 100%. Finally, we fabricate and measure the proposed polarization converter that contains $30\times30$ unit cells. The experimental results are in good agreement with the simulation results, and thus validating the design.In conclusion, we propose both theoretically and experimentally a linear polarization converter that possesses ultra-broadband, high-efficiency, wide-angle, and simple geometry simultaneously. The proposed scheme can be extended to terahertz and even optical frequencies. -
Keywords:
- polarization converter /
- metamaterials /
- metasurface /
- ultra-broadband /
- anisotropy
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图 1 基本单元结构示意图 (a) 立体图; (b) 俯视图
Figure 1. Schematic demonstration of the unit cell: (a) 3D view; (b) top view.
图 2 (a) 极化转换器的工作原理; (b) 反射波沿u和v方向的振幅及相位差
Figure 2. (a) The working principle of the proposed polarization converter; (b) amplitudes and phase difference of reflected wave along u and v directions.
图 3 (a) 交叉极化和共极化反射系数; (b) 极化转换率
Figure 3. (a) Reflection coefficients of cross-polarization and co-polarization; (b) polarization conversion ratio.
图 4 上下金属表面的电流分布 (a) 7.64 GHz; (b) 16.94 GHz
Figure 4. Distributions of the surface current on the metallic surfaces: (a) 7.64 GHz; (b) 16.94 GHz.
图 5 (a) 共极化反射谱; (b) 交叉极化反射谱; (c) 平均极化转换效率随入射角的变化
Figure 5. (a) Reflection spectra for co-polarization; (b) reflection spectra for cross-polarization; (c) mean PCR with the change of incident angle.
图 6 不同的结构参数对极化转换器的性能的影响
Figure 6. Influence of different geometric parameters on the performance of polarization converter.
图 7 (a) 加工样品与测试系统; (b) rxy测试结果与仿真结果; (c) ryy测试结果与仿真结果
Figure 7. (a) Fabricated sample and measurement system; (b) measured result and simulation result of rxy; (c) measured result and simulation result of ryy.
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[1] Beruete M, Navarro-Cia M, Sorolla M, Campillo I 2008 J. Appl. Phys. 103 053102
Google Scholar
[2] Xu J, Li T, Lu F F, Wang S M, Zhu S N 2011 Opt. Express 19 748
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[6] Schurig D, Mock J J, Justice B J, Cummer S A, Pendry J B, Starr A F, Smith D R 2006 Science 314 977
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Google Scholar
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Fan Y, Qu S B, Wang J F, Zhang J Q, Feng M D, Zhang A X 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 184101
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Google Scholar
[30] 方振华, 罗春荣, 赵晓鹏 2017 光子学报 46 1216001
Fang Z H, Luo C R, Zhao X P 2017 Acta Photon. Sin. 46 1216001
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Google Scholar
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